An award-winning English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif., Larry Ferlazzo is the author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide, and Building Parent Engagement In Schools.He also maintains the popular Websites of the Day blog. In this EdWeek blog, an experiment in knowledge-gathering, he will address readers' questions on classroom management, ELL instruction, lesson planning, and other issues facing teachers. Send your questions to [email protected]. And offer your own thoughts and responses in the comments section.

How do you Introduce Classroom Rules & What Should They be?

What are the best ways to introduce classroom rules in creative ways on my large classes (30-40 students per class)?

That was the submitted question, and the one I sent to guests who are providing formal responses.

However, I'd like to make an addition and invite readers to contribute responses to the original question and to this one:

What are important classroom rules?

Please share your thoughts in the comments or, if you prefer, feel free to email them to me.

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